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Prohibition anti-Prohibition protest Prohibition Party
How Prohibition led to the invention of the Caesar salad
Al Capone The Public Enemy
Travel back to the Prohibition era and watch President Franklin Roosevelt sign the beer bill into law
Prohibition wrecked car with cases of moonshine during Prohibition in the United States
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How Prohibition led to the invention of the Caesar salad
Caesar salad has nothing to do with the Roman emperor. It was actually invented in...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Travel back to the Prohibition era and watch President Franklin Roosevelt sign the beer bill into law
“To drink or not to drink,” a dilemma that divided the United States from the ratification...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Prohibition
New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach (right) watching agents pour...
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-123257)
anti-Prohibition protest
A protest against Prohibition in New York.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Prohibition Party
National Prohibition Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1892.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-59668)
Al Capone
Chicago crime boss Al Capone, c. 1935.
MPI/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The Public Enemy
James Cagney and Jean Harlow in The Public Enemy (1931).
© 1931 Warner Brothers, Inc.; photograph from a private collection
Prohibition
Two men pouring alcohol into a sewer during Prohibition in the United States.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
wrecked car with cases of moonshine during Prohibition in the United States
Policeman standing alongside a wrecked car and cases of moonshine, November 1922.
Library of Congress, Washington D.C (LC-USZ62-96757)